AI as a Junior Platform Engineer: How I "Onboard" Coding Agents

Introduction The first time I started seriously using AI in my DevOps workflows, I made the same mistake I've seen many others make. I treated it like a tool. Something you prompt, get an answer from, and move on. It worked, to a point. But the results were inconsistent. Sometimes surprisingly good, sometimes completely off. It felt less like working with a system and more like rolling a dice. That changed when I started thinking about AI differently. Not as a tool - but as a junior platform eng